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Ariel graduated from ��ɫ��Ƶ in 2021 with a BAH in Political Studies, minoring in Philosophy.  She is now a graduate student in the War Studies program at the Royal Military College of Canada, where she holds an SSHRC CGS-M grant with a MINDS supplementary grant. She is currently writing her MA thesis, which investigates the role of cryptocurrencies in North Korean proliferation financing schemes. 

Ariel has been working for the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations since October of 2022 on projects related to terrorist financing and cryptocurrency. Her research interests include proliferation financing, WMD/CBRN proliferation and policy, military privatization and ethics, and the intersection of cyberspace, crime, and warfare. 

In her free time, Ariel can be found volunteering at her local stable or playing with her two dogs. She enjoys horseback riding, reading, and oil painting, and is learning to play the violin. 

Dr Jamie Ferrill is the Discipline Lead of Financial Crime Studies and Lecturer in the same at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University. She has nearly a decade of law enforcement experience, having worked for Canada Border Services Agency prior to commencing an academic career. Jamie holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Loughborough University (UK), a Masters in Homeland Security Leadership from the University of Connecticut (US), and a Bachelors in Criminal Justice from Mount Royal University (Canada). A political sociologist, Jamie researches threats to national and economic security. With a focus on border security, her work explores the role of human actors and ideology in organisational processes, as well as in transnational cooperation and collaboration. Jamie is working on the IIGR’s project on financial crime, addressing intergovernmental dimensions.

Dr. Todd Hataley is a professor in the School of Justice and Community Development at Fleming College.  He is a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  During his tenure as a federal police officer, he worked as an investigator in organized crime, national security, cross-border crime and extra-territorial torture.  Dr. Hataley is an adjunct associate professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and in the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia.  His research currently focuses on the management of international boundaries, money laundering, Indigenous policing and transnational crime.  He is working on the IIRG’s project on the intersection of international and traditional Indigenous boundaries.

Michael Luoma (PhD, Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2023) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR) and the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) at Queen’s University.

Michael’s research draws contemporary political philosophy into dialogue with grounded contexts of normative and political contestation. Specifically, Michael’s research examines the conditions for political legitimacy in Indigenous – settler relations, with a focus on the requirements for fair negotiation of territorial authority among self-determining peoples in a multinational federal system. Pursuant to this objective, Michael has conducted research on Indigenous political authority and collective self-determination, territorial rights and restitution, federalism, transnational Indigenous communities, and the negotiation of modern treaties.

In his capacity as postdoctoral fellow at the IIGR, Michael is pursuing research on multinational federalism and border governance in the field of Indigenous – state relations, in association with the Institute’s partnership with the 21^st Century Borders project.

You may find additional details about Michael’s research, on the negotiation of modern treaty agreements, on his CSDD profile.

Articles:
Luoma, M. (2024).  “Group-differentiated rights for Indigenous communities that straddle borders.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 28 (1): 121–142.

Luoma, M. (2024) “Public Education, Multinational Identity Formation, and Territorial Legitimacy: An Analysis of the 2004 and 2023 Ontario Curricula on Indigenous �ʱ�DZ�����.” Frontiers in Political Science, Peace and Democracy, 6: 1-16.

Luoma, M. & Moore, M. (2024). “Rectifying Historical Territorial Injustices.” Res Publica, 30: 683–703.

Luoma, M. (2022). “Collective Self-Determination, Territory and the Wet'suwet’en: What Justifies the Political Authority of Historic Indigenous Governments over Land and �ʱ�DZ����?” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 55(1), 19-39.

Book Chapters:

Luoma, M. (2025). “Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change.” In Madsen, R. & Sullivan, W.M. (Eds.), Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics: Climate Change and Morality. Brookings Institution Press. Forthcoming.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:

Luoma, M. “James Tully: Indigenous Self-Government in Modern Canada.” In Gray, K. (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights (pp. 1-10). Springer.

Luoma, M. “Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights Cara Nine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 336.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 56 (4): 1000-1002.